Quote Originally Posted by Tsuga View Post
That's a separate issue, but I agree that it is another disappointing side effect of shoehorning personal housing in with FC housing. It's just not what we were discussing.

imo they should have been separate systems entirely, with personal housing being slightly smaller than company housing with smaller ward zones to justify lower prices (as was implied), to accommodate server issues and so as to not invalidate FC housing. Wishful thinking at this point, though.
Fair enough. I do get what you are talking about, Yoshi-P said one thing and something else happened. I don't see why this is such a huge deal. Have you never changed your mind about something? You don't need to answer that and I'm fairly certain any situation you would have been in is much different than the situation with the housing. There are many reasons for secrecy behind their choices and what information they divulge to the populace and many more reasons why they may have to adjust or change their original vision. While i'm not condoning the choices they made regarding pretty much all aspects of personal housing, I will defend their right to make changes without having to spoon feed us on the entire situation.

Honestly, the way the question was asked and answered specifically regarding the 850K that sounds like me answering my kids when I'm trying to suprise them with going out for dinner. And regarding your quote you keep bringing up "completely seperate from FC housing(or whatever)" How long ago was that made? I'm sure you have that link close and handy cause I don't actually recall when it was said but I do remember seeing it. Not that time is an excuse but things can change a lot during development which is WHY devs are usually tight lipped because changes can be construed as a lie once people take it as written in stone. what he said may have been his intent at the time but pushing out housing earlier he would know there will be insufficient space for personal housing so in order to "gate" it until more space can be added, the huge price would do the trick.

But again, this is all pretty much irrelevant compared to the limited space. Had it been personal instances instead of a public ward, they wouldnt have had to gate the pricing in the first place.